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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>,
	"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Malin Jonsson <malin.jonsson@est.tech>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] mm: drop HIGHPTE support altogether
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 13:33:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe58d4ad-0410-4525-a1dc-2cfb2ce1d52f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <avWo4NrAPX8BisCY@kernel.org>

On 11/12/26 12:54, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 12:25:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>
>> With both x86 and arm having dropped CONFIG_HIGHPTE support, no
>> architecture is left using it, so remove the remnants in common code.
>>
>> It is likely that further cleanups are possible in the page table
>> code but those are not obvious from the config options.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/hugetlb.h | 5 +----
>>  include/linux/mm.h      | 1 -
>>  include/linux/pgtable.h | 9 ---------
>>  3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> With this and arm HIGHPTE patches applied there are still a few leftovers:
> 
> $ git grep  HIGHPTE
> arch/arm/configs/vt8500_v6_v7_defconfig:CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y
> mm/memory.c:     * Dumping the PTE would be nice, but it's tricky with CONFIG_HIGHPTE,
> mm/pgtable-generic.c: * kmapped if necessary (when CONFIG_HIGHPTE), and locked against concurrent
> mm/userfaultfd.c:        * index ordering when CONFIG_HIGHPTE is enabled. We mapped dst_pte
> 
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
> 


With these gone

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

-- 
Cheers,

David


  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-12 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-12 11:25 [PATCH v2 0/6] mm: highmem cleanups Arnd Bergmann
2026-11-12 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] ARM: remove support for highmem on VIVT Arnd Bergmann
2026-11-12 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: remove ARCH_NEEDS_KMAP_HIGH_GET Arnd Bergmann
2026-11-12 11:48   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-11-12 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] ARM: drop CONFIG_HIGHPTE support Arnd Bergmann
2026-11-12 11:47   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-11-12 12:22     ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-11-12 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] mm: drop HIGHPTE support altogether Arnd Bergmann
2026-11-12 11:54   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-11-12 12:33     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-11-12 13:26     ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-11-12 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] arch/*: increase lowmem size to avoid highmem use Arnd Bergmann
2026-11-12 12:00   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-11-12 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] ARM: add CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G_OPT option Arnd Bergmann

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